Warner Bros. Home
Entertainment was busy this past week with announcements for DVD, Blu-ray and
4K Ultra HD catalog selections, which is usually a strong indicator that
release news relating to Dunkirk, It and Annabelle:
Creation will be following soon.
Until then … we have the
Oct. 31 unbundling of the January of 2009 four-film collection titled Warner
Bros. Romance Classics Collection.
This four-disc, four-film collection, long out of print, is now being
released as individual film MOD product offerings under the studio’s Warner
Archive promotional banner.
These four films feature
three starring Troy Donahue with direction by Delmer Daves — Rome
Adventure (1962, co-starring Suzanne Pleshette and Angie Dickinson), Susan
Slade (1961, with Connie Stevens and Dorothy McGuire) and Parrish (1961, Connie Stevens and
Claudette Colbert) — and Palm Springs Weekend (1963), which
also stars Troy Donahue and Connie Stevens, but was directed by Norman Taurog …
Ty Hardin and Stefanie Powers co-star.
Being released for the
first time on DVD on Oct. 24 are two three-film collections. The first of these is titled Glenda
Farrell Triple Feature, which features three of her non-Torchy Blane films
from the 1930s. Included in the
collection are two from director William Clemens — both from 1936 film — The
Law in Her Hands (co-starring Margaret Lindsay and Warren Hull) and Here
Comes Carter (with Anne Nagel and Ross Alexander) and director Frank
McDonald’s summer of 1937 comedy, Dance Charlie Dance (with Stuart
Erwin, Jean Muir and Allen Jenkins).
The other three-film
collection showcases the talents of character actor Guy Kibbee in the DVD
release titled simply, Guy Kibbee Triple Feature. The three films are Mary Jane's Pa (1935,
direction by William Keighley and co-starring Aline MacMahon), Going
Highbrow (also from 1935, directed by Robert Florey and co-starring
Zasu Pitts) and director Frank McDonald’s 1936 film release of The
Big Noise, featuring Warren Hull, Dick Foran and Alma Lloyd.
Heading to Blu-ray for
the first time during the month of October are The Green Slim (1968,
with Robert Hutton, Richard Jaeckel and Luciana Paluzzi), Alan Ladd, Edward G.
Robinson and Joanne Dru star in director Frank Tuttle’s 1955 film noir entry, Hell on Frisco Bay and
director Michael Curtiz guides Robinson as “Wolf” Larson in the 1941 adventure,
The
Sea Wolf (with Ida Lupino and John Garfield) — all streeting on Oct. 10
— and Rachel Ward stars in the 1981 horror entry, Night School, which will
be available on Oct. 24.
Rounding out the film
library selections are the Nov. 7 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack selections of Harry
Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,
Harry
Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of
Fire.
The other four films in
the series were released as 4K Ultra HD editions in March of this year.
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